Did a hill session today and tried out this technique! Not sure if the hills were the steepness warranted but it did seem to help - having the feet at an angle to the hill meant there was less pressure on the back of the leg, mainly calves and back of heel and was suprised I wasn't tired out after the 3rd repition of the hill! Don't think I have perfected it but sort of made sense - lets see how the legs are for tomorrows long run, they feel absolutely fine at the moment 2 hours after the session!

Read up to and including most of Chapter 4 over the last couple of days so this morning I thought I would try some of the Chi techniques out on my planned 5 mile easy run.

Refreshed my memory this morning with the book so I was 20 minutes late out the house at 04:50 instead. Done all of the body alignment, checked the lean, hips even, loosen the calfs and ankles, stand on a gallon can of B & Q best emulsion and strike the one legged heron pose (not really), and away I went.

Whilst running I carried out some adjustment to knee rotation and keeping feet aligned whilst maintaining the lean and at the same time trying to raise my feet higher.

One thing I did notice is that I need to loosen my ankles more whilst running as I experienced aching toes after my run meaning I was pushing off from them as opposed to the forefoot.

I'll have another crack at it tomorrow morning as I have a 6.5 mile easy run again and hopefully I can put some of it into practice with my next 10k race being the Shobnall midsummer at 19:30 on Tuesday. 

Been trying the chi running.  Not sure if I am doing it right but concentrating on relaxing my legs and ankles and leaning but find I seem to be landing on the flat of my feet, well thats what it feels like anyway.  I will persevere and see if it helps

Just went for my first run with a metronome, turns out I have been running with a higher cadence than I thought! Set to beep at 75 bpm as recommended in the book, and the run felt much easier than usual. I also felt more able to relax into the lean.  Ran 5k in 30:27, (which is good for me) with energy to spare. :o)

Hello has anybody got any futher tips/advice  on this subject.

Ian, where did you get your metronome to measure your cadence? Is their a special running one available? Just getting back inot my running and wanted to start back with chi techniques as this seemed to bring big improvements last year. Cadence is the one thing I have never measure though even though I do try to keep it high even at slowere paces.

It's been a while since this subject has been added to, but if you're still looking, sign up to newsletters from the Chi Running website at http://www.chirunning.com/  There are also Chi Running workshops that you can go on, http://www.corerunning.co.uk/page3.htm  They do get booked up fairly quickly.  Am booked on one soon, hoping that will enable me to "get it" fully, as it is a bit brain draining trying to get all body parts doing something different to how they have been moving / running.  Have got my first running injury trying to change too much, too soon.... the motto is gradual progress, must remember that.